![]() This movie is about redemption, both human and machine. Yet his character has surprising depth: Not only does he put himself at enormous risk to save the lives of the mother, her child and the American doctors on a charity mission who got caught in the crossfire, he does so unarmed, and it's revealed that he carries a deep sense of guilt because he was the only survivor of a raid in which his friends were killed.Īdditionally, the main plot thread in this movie involves four semi-autonomous androform robot soldiers, including one that malfunctions, becomes self-aware when its controlling "AI cap" is disabled, and slowly comes to the realization that human life, indeed all life, is precious: A realization it arrives at with the help of the aforementioned Cambodian boy, who after seeing both of his parents killed, clings to the one remaining adult he loves, the Navy SEAL. Meanwhile, the heroic characters include a Cambodian boy, the boy's kind mother, the boy's father who dies defending his family, two females including an Asian-American woman, and yes, a white male former Navy SEAL.Īpparently the author of the review thought the Navy SEAL risking life and limb - with complete, utter humility - was "problematic" because he's a white male. On the contrary, all the unequivocally bad guys are white men: The military major testing his new war machines on civilians, the military contractor boss who supplies the machines, two of the three main programmers, and the spec-ops guy who coerces the programmers - at gun-point, while threatening the lives of their families - after they realize with horror that their creations are being used on civilians. ![]() First off, I don't think the reviewer here actually watched the movie, claiming it's "not particularly kind to non-White-male" (sic) characters.
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